Are you chatting with a pro-Israeli AI-powered superbot?
Al JazeeraBy the end of 2023, nearly half of all internet traffic was bots, found a study by United States cybersecurity company Imperva. According to Baydoun, the pro-Israeli bots they found mainly aim to sow doubt and confusion about a pro-Palestinian narrative rather than to make social media users trust them instead. “The ability of AI to create these larger bot networks … has a massively deleterious effect on truthful communication, but also freedom of expression because they have the ability to drown out human voices,” said Jillian York, director for International Freedom of Expression at international non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. Bot evolution Early bots were very simple, operating in accordance with predefined rules rather than employing the sophisticated AI techniques used today. Beginning in the early to mid-2000s, as social networks like MySpace and Facebook rose, social media bots became popular because they could automate tasks like quickly adding “friends”, creating user accounts and automating posts.
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